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SURREY – The City of Surrey and the Surrey school district are partnering to reopen the former East Clayton elementary school in September 2011 to help ease overcrowding at Hazelgrove Elementary in Cloverdale. The city will lease the East Clayton Elementary school building, which has five classrooms, to the school district until the end of June 2013. The reopened school will serve as an annex to Hazelgrove Elementary. “Our board has recognized the need for a new elementary school in the East Clayton area of Cloverdale for some time and it continues to be at the top of our board’s five-year capital plan submission to the Ministry of Education,” McNally said. She praised city officials for helping the school district deal with chronic overcrowding. “Reusing the former East Clayton school space with the assistance of the City of Surrey is another example of how our board is doing its best to manage our district’s growth while faced with a lack of new school funding.” Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said Surrey’s school district has grown by 4,000 students in the last four years.
SURREY – Fellow musicians and total strangers are rallying around guitar player Michael Taylor after he was attacked at a Scott Road bus loop on the weekend. The Acoustic Groove band member was on his way home from a gig in Vancouver early Saturday when he was attacked on the sidewalk, after sharing a bus ride home with his alleged attackers. He went to hospital with cuts and abrasions and is now resting at home. Band member Tony Chamberlist said Taylor was “clobbered from behind...before he passed out, he felt a rain of fists down on him.” On the bus, some racial comments were made to Taylor, who is black, but police are not recommending charges under hatecrime legislation.
see POLICE page 7
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How young buckaroos can help feed Surrey’s hungry Marilyn Herrmann, executive director of the Surrey Food Bank, says with the price of rice – not to mention fuel – going up, the food bank is always looking at creative ways to stretch dollars and raise more donations to cover these added costs. One new initiative is the Kids Can
Rodeo. The challenge is for kids to form teams and collect donations of canned goods, then build a display at the Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition, based on a food bank theme or a rodeo theme. Read the full story and find out how you can help on page 7.
MICHAEL TAYLOR
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